Come with us now to another 2020 timeline, one in which workplace Secret Santa/Hidden Hanukkah Harriet gift-giving is still a pressing concern. You’ve drawn the name of a true-crime naysayer, a co-worker who thinks the entire genre is “trashy” or “overrated” or “too scary/depressing.” This individual is not entirely off-base if we’re being real about things BUT the point is, you have three (3) “gifts” in which to convince them to like true crime. Price is no object; availability is no object (i.e., assume old miniserieses or OOP books can be tracked down). But you only have three.
Okay the cat video worked...nicely done. Have to think about the list though...so many great considerations. Okay, I'm putting this out there: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman, Stinking Rich by Rob Brunet ('cause crime is funny), and Cardinal Series by Giles Blunt ('cause sometimes it isn't).
I'm thinking something old, something new and something blue. The old is definitely In Cold Blood. The new would be Murder on Middle Beach. The blue is for some language used in These Aren't My Pants! (tells crazy stories of dumb criminals and which - totally coincidentally - I just picked up at a used bookstore about two hours ago).
I fear I may suffering from recency bias, but my off the top of my head picks would be the "O.J. Made in America" series, Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning" (https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-reckoning/), and Down City by Leah Carroll.
Thin Blue Line is a brilliant pick because once that film starts, one cannot turn away. So i would also include that on my list. I’d add Murder on a Sunday morning for the same reason and because it includes a primary crime with a bonus of wider societal problems. And i have to include In Cold Blood because of the many naysayers I know, most of them devoured thay book in one or two sittings.
1. Serial season 1 (isn’t my favorite but appeals to many); film: Zodiac (is a favorite and yes I know it’s fictionalized); book: the Feather Thief (different take on TC)
To read: The Texas Monthly longform article about the Rogers family murders (http://reprints.longform.org/angels-demons). Not going to mention the serial killer's name.
Okay the cat video worked...nicely done. Have to think about the list though...so many great considerations. Okay, I'm putting this out there: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman, Stinking Rich by Rob Brunet ('cause crime is funny), and Cardinal Series by Giles Blunt ('cause sometimes it isn't).
I'm thinking something old, something new and something blue. The old is definitely In Cold Blood. The new would be Murder on Middle Beach. The blue is for some language used in These Aren't My Pants! (tells crazy stories of dumb criminals and which - totally coincidentally - I just picked up at a used bookstore about two hours ago).
I fear I may suffering from recency bias, but my off the top of my head picks would be the "O.J. Made in America" series, Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning" (https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-reckoning/), and Down City by Leah Carroll.
Thin Blue Line, Bear Brook podcast, Bad Blood. Tempted to add the Tower movie instead of one of them, but I like having a mix of formats
Thin Blue Line is a brilliant pick because once that film starts, one cannot turn away. So i would also include that on my list. I’d add Murder on a Sunday morning for the same reason and because it includes a primary crime with a bonus of wider societal problems. And i have to include In Cold Blood because of the many naysayers I know, most of them devoured thay book in one or two sittings.
1. Serial season 1 (isn’t my favorite but appeals to many); film: Zodiac (is a favorite and yes I know it’s fictionalized); book: the Feather Thief (different take on TC)
To read: The Texas Monthly longform article about the Rogers family murders (http://reprints.longform.org/angels-demons). Not going to mention the serial killer's name.
To listen: Stuff the British Stole, an Australian podcast about the items you see in museums that are the product of invasion and colonisation (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-british-stole/)
To watch: this is tough! Hard to go past Thin Blue Line.